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Photo # 80-CF-4184-10: XF9C-1 aircraft landing on USS Akron, May 1932

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-- U.S. NAVY AIRCRAFT -- 1922-1962 DESIGNATION SYSTEM --

USS Akron (ZRS-4), Airship 1931-1933 --
Views of Her Heavier-Than-Air Group


This page features all the views we have related to USS Akron's embarked airplanes and their personnel.

For more views of USS Akron, see:

  • USS Akron (ZRS-4), Airship 1931-1933.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

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    Photo #: 80-CF-4184-10

    Curtiss XF9C-1 "Sparrowhawk" fighter

    (Bureau # A8731)

    Approaches the trapeze landing gear of USS Akron (ZRS-4), while landing on the airship, 3 May 1932. Photographed from inside Akron's hangar.
    Pilot is Lieutenant Howard L. Young.

    Photograph from Department of the Navy collections in the U.S. National Archives.

    Online Image: 76KB; 740 x 625 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: 80-CF-4184-14

    Curtiss XF9C-1 "Sparrowhawk" fighter

    (Bureau # A8731)

    Hooks onto the trapeze landing gear of USS Akron (ZRS-4), while landing on the airship, 3 May 1932. Photographed from inside Akron's hangar.
    Pilot is Lieutenant Howard L. Young, who is reaching out to guide the trapeze's stabilizing arm into a corresponding fitting on the plane's upper wing.

    Photograph from Department of the Navy collections in the U.S. National Archives.

    Online Image: 99KB; 740 x 620 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: 80-G-416534

    Curtiss XF9C-1 "Sparrowhawk" fighter

    (Bureau # A8731)

    Is lifted into the hangar of USS Akron (ZRS-4), after hooking onto the airship's trapeze landing gear, 3 May 1932. Photographed during exercises over the Atlantic Ocean near Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey
    Pilot is Lieutenant Howard L. Young.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

    Online Image: 91KB; 740 x 605 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: 80-G-416532

    Curtiss XF9C-1 "Sparrowhawk" fighter

    (Bureau # A8731)

    Is lifted into the hangar of USS Akron (ZRS-4), after hooking onto the airship's trapeze landing gear, circa May 1932.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

    Online Image: 99KB; 740 x 615 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: 80-CF-4184-15

    Curtiss XF9C-1 "Sparrowhawk" fighter

    (Bureau # A8731)

    Is lifted into the hangar of USS Akron (ZRS-4), after landing on the airship, 3 May 1932.
    Pilot is Lieutenant Howard L. Young.

    Photograph from Department of the Navy collections in the U.S. National Archives.

    Online Image: 76KB; 740 x 620 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: NH 77427

    Curtiss F9C-2 "Sparrowhawk" fighter


    About to hook onto the aircraft trapeze of USS Akron (ZRS-4), circa 1932-1933.
    Note the configuration of Akron's trapeze, which had been modified from its original arrangement in mid-1932.

    Courtesy of Harold B. Miller, 1973.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 67KB; 740 x 590 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 80773

    Curtiss F9C-2 "Sparrowhawk" fighter

    (Bureau # 9059)

    Inside the airplane hangar of USS Akron (ZRS-4), 1932.
    Part of the airplane handling system is visible above the plane.
    Another "Sparrowhawk", in flight, is partially visible through the airship's hangar opening, at the bottom of the view.

    Courtesy of Richard K. Smith, author of the book "The Airships Akron & Macon", 1974.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 104KB; 740 x 585 pixels

     
    Photo #: 80-G-463185

    USS Akron (ZRS-4)


    Launches a Consolidated N2Y-1 training plane (Bureau # A8604) during flight tests near Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, 4 May 1932.
    Note the airship's trapeze aircraft handling gear suspended from her hangar bay.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

    Online Image: 56KB; 740 x 605 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: NH 84208

    USS Akron (ZRS-4)


    Recovers her N2Y-1 airplane, during training exercises, circa 1932.

    Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1976.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 83KB; 740 x 605 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 80775

    Consolidated N2Y-1 training plane

    (Bureau # 8604)

    Photographed while serving as "hook-on" familiarization trainer for USS Akron (ZRS-4), 1932.
    An O3U-1 (Bureau # 8871) is in the background.

    Courtesy of Richard K. Smith, author of the book "The Airships Akron & Macon", 1974.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 62B; 740 x 450 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 77430

    USS Akron (ZRS-4)


    Pilots of the airship's Heavier-Than-Air unit pose in front of one of their Curtiss F9C-2 "Sparrowhawk" fighters, at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey, in 1933 sometime after Akron's loss. Present are (left to right):
    Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Robert W. Lawson,
    Lieutenant Harold B. Miller,
    Lieutenant Frederick M. Trapnell,
    Lieutenant Howard L. Young, and
    Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Frederick N. Kivette.

    Courtesy of Harold B. Miller, 1973.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 97KB; 740 x 590 pixels

     

    For more views of USS Akron, see:

  • USS Akron (ZRS-4), Airship 1931-1933.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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    Page made 5 July 2002
    New images added 3 October 2002